Hello everybody, First off I'd like to thank Kris for this information. It solved one puzzle for me. I could never figure out the marriage date for my g-g-g-grandparents Ernest Roberts and Philomene Demers or Soulard was for a time after I knew thay had at least children baptised. Secondly, can anybody help me to interpret the reference to Lyon Mountain below. This is the church they went to. Where is Redford? The way I'm reading it, from 1870 to 1881, people from Lyon Mountain went to Redford for marriages and baptisms. Is that right? Mike The Goszka's wrote: > > I have read {in MARRIAGES (1830-1880) CLINTON COUNTY (NEW YORK) by Benoit > Pontbriand} that early on they had "traveling pastors" or missionaries that > would be stationed at a mission. > > Also, there apparently was something called a "rehabilitated marriage". > These will sometimes be found in Catholic church records. It was > essentially a second marriage. The couple would have been married by a > squire or Protestant Minister, and sometime after that (I think with in 7 > years), the couple would be "re-married", or have the marriage > "rehabilitated" by a Catholic priest. > St. Bernard in Lyon Mountain, established 1881, resident pastor 1894, > mission of Redford 1870. >